Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) museum and landed safely on the

and landed safely on the other side with several feet to spare

its roll call of casualties far exceeded its number of survivors

with her children

generals and governors

Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series)

Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) museum and landed safely on thePittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment by Ernest D Spisak "Treason!" Sam Black, the Mexican War veteran they called the Bengal Tiger, fired up the crowd in Pittsburghs city hall that spring day in 1861 following the rebel attack on Fort Sumter. Black would be killed, leading his men in battle early in the war. But the regiment he recruited, the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, would fight on through many of the major battles of the Civil War,